Local Health Services

Getting Started: Contacting Your Local Health Services

If you are looking for publicly funded services, these are the numbers to call in your area. When you call, you need to tell them that you are looking for services for a senior in their home, or you are looking for nursing homes, assisted living, or other supportive housing. They will want to know the address of the person needing care. Then they will put you through to intake, where intake will ask you some information, and hopefully set you up with a case manager, who will come to the house to do the assessment.

If someone is in hospital, assessments are done in hospital, and services can be arranged from hospital.

Fraser Health Authority

Central Intake: 604-953-4965
(This is the number to start off. Below are the individual health units, out of which the case managers are based):

Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

Central Intake: 604-263-7377
(This is the number to start off. Below are the individual health units, out of which the case managers are based):

Vancouver:

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North Shore:

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Richmond:

Richmond Continuing Health Services
Fifth floor North Tower
7000 Westminster Highway
Richmond, BC V6X 1A2
Tel: 604.278.3361

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Sunshine Coast:

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Garibaldi:

Vancouver Island Health Authority

South Island:

All communities south of Mill Bay, including Greater Victoria, the Southern Gulf Islands and west to Port Renfrew call:
(250) 388-2273
1-888-533-2273 (toll free)

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Central Island:

All communities from Mill Bay to Deep Bay, including Gabriola Island, and from Parksville on the east coast to beyond Tofino/Ucluelet on the west coast, call:

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North Island:

All communities north of Deep Bay including the Mt. Waddington Regional District and the mainland area adjacent to it, call: